You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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